Indian writer Banu Mushtaq is the first Kannada language author to win the International Booker Prize, and her book " Heart ...

Karnataka author Banu Mushtaq discusses her reading journey from childhood magazines to Russian literature, how social ...

At a conversation hosted by IIC in New Delhi, Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi reflected on the power of language, resistance, ...

From master storyteller Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Kabuliwala’ and the celebrated Odia writer Fakir Mohan Senapati’s poignant ‘Rebati’ to Satyajit Ray’s ‘Two Magicians’ and Ismat Chughtai’s ‘Of Fists and ...

Author Banu Mushtaq said at a time women are going for higher studies and getting employed, they are also being murdered for ...

In the wake of Heart Lamp’s historic International Booker Prize win, here are five recent translations that make space for India’s layered regional literature ...

Unfeeling husbands. Brothers who want to rob sisters of their inheritance. Mothers expected to be responsible for their ...

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Author Banu Mushtaq’s International Booker prize winning book, “Heart Lamp”, is a collection of 12 short stories written from the 1990s till 2023, a period during which she believes women have become ...

For many young readers feeling distant from their native cultures, translated books offer a way back home. “The idea that ...

Journalist, Activist, Author and Lawyer, Banu Mushtaq, the winner of 2025 Booker Prize for Literature, is now also a History ...